Lincoln Assassination
Gary Grubb
28 Mar 2013
American History
April 14th, 1865
A day that will live in infamy, oh wait that was already used once before. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the passing of a great President. A time rife with much mixed emotion amongst a nation divided and of great change for the American people. Lincoln brought the American nation out of a brutal civil war, but Confederate sympathizers of the south continued. A look at the conditions that fueled the tragic end of Abraham Lincoln and his killer. The finally scene of the Presidents last minutes painted by some of those by his bed side on that day, April 14th 1865. President Lincoln’s Assassination was the result of one confederate sympathizer and his affinity for fame and recognition, a place in history for his actions. In the early part of 1865 the North and South were nearing the end of the Civil War that had been raging from around 1861 up to 1865, but the end of the war was not necessarily the end of conflict for many on both sides (Appomattox web). Just days before the presidents ill fated day at the theater, General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his military position bringing the Civil War to its end for all intensive purposes (Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination). It was on the 8th of April 1865 General Ulysses Grant had effectively surrounded Lee’s men, on the 9th Lee had informed Grant the his men were willing to lay down their arms and surrender. They met that day the 9th in the home of Wilmer McLean which came to be known as the Appomattox Court House (Appomattox web). The Civil War although a source of much stress for Lincoln at this time was not the only, Lincoln had also issued the Emancipation Proclamation only 2 years before. Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter in 1864 to some of his fellow people in which he stated, “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong (Emancipation Proclamation web).” The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves of the South in an act of the
28 Mar 2013
American History
April 14th, 1865
A day that will live in infamy, oh wait that was already used once before. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the passing of a great President. A time rife with much mixed emotion amongst a nation divided and of great change for the American people. Lincoln brought the American nation out of a brutal civil war, but Confederate sympathizers of the south continued. A look at the conditions that fueled the tragic end of Abraham Lincoln and his killer. The finally scene of the Presidents last minutes painted by some of those by his bed side on that day, April 14th 1865. President Lincoln’s Assassination was the result of one confederate sympathizer and his affinity for fame and recognition, a place in history for his actions. In the early part of 1865 the North and South were nearing the end of the Civil War that had been raging from around 1861 up to 1865, but the end of the war was not necessarily the end of conflict for many on both sides (Appomattox web). Just days before the presidents ill fated day at the theater, General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his military position bringing the Civil War to its end for all intensive purposes (Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination). It was on the 8th of April 1865 General Ulysses Grant had effectively surrounded Lee’s men, on the 9th Lee had informed Grant the his men were willing to lay down their arms and surrender. They met that day the 9th in the home of Wilmer McLean which came to be known as the Appomattox Court House (Appomattox web). The Civil War although a source of much stress for Lincoln at this time was not the only, Lincoln had also issued the Emancipation Proclamation only 2 years before. Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter in 1864 to some of his fellow people in which he stated, “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong (Emancipation Proclamation web).” The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves of the South in an act of the